Ellen DeGeneres’ Epic Oscars Selfie Has 2.6 Million Retweets

Ellen DeGeneres’ group Oscars selfie shattered Barack Obama’s previous Twitter retweet record before the awards show had even ended.

By Monday morning, at the time of this posting, Ellen’s “Best photo ever” had more than 2.6 million retweets and was still growing. It also had more than 1.3 million favorites — and those figures aren’t even counting all of the mentions and Internet shares and memes that instantly followed.